Hi, the public demo server has some new quite nice creation tools, as those who have visited there may have noticed. I made a couple little videos now to intro their use.
a) a simple way to add web page views, or e.g. images from the web or from your local drive. with easy means to place them just by carrying them around as if your avatar was holding it in his/her hands. Can pick them up again afterwards for carrying the object somewhere else. This first video shows that authoring, and also the whole process from starting a viewer and logging in etc .. in ~2minutes the whole biz: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lXBtn0k1UTA b) Also there is a simple group feature -- anyone can add groups to a world, to which people can then join by clicking the in-world group object. Those groups work as mumble voip channels, visible in the channel list in the voice widget (not shown in this video): http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hizwfzbGrR8 This is on the server where you get from the login dialog on http://www.realxtend.org/ These tools were created last year in the TOY project, the virtual learning env made for the Finnish school of the future project. But are also just simple generic basics meant for any reX use. Not all of TOY is ported to Tundra yet, but more will be there soon (next in turn is the library). Complete info of the whole school project and this env and the tools is in this pdf doc, this is current draft which needs some little fixes still before final: http://dl.dropbox.com/u/3157753/TOY_document_en_v02.pdf . Pasi is presenting that tomorrow at the immersive education summit in Boston. There is also fun feedback from the school kids, how they liked the env :) We'll make some sort of a news announcement / blog post to the new site with this info tomorrow, but here as first info -- any feedback and questions are welcome. ~Toni -- http://groups.google.com/group/realxtend http://www.realxtend.org
